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Although it was slightly ahead of my time and I consider myself to more of a GI Joe kind of person, I’ll admit I was a little more than excited when I saw the teaser trailer for Transformers over a year ago. “A live-action Transformers movie?!? Fuck yeah, where do I sign up?” (I didn’t really say that out loud.)

Then it was announced somewhere down the line that Michael Bay was set to direct. I don’t even know how to describe how I felt when I learned that. On one hand, it’s Michael Bay . And on the other, it’s Michael Bay.

Because let’s be honest, Michael Bay is an awful director. He’s just…awful. He makes movies, not films. See the difference? James Cameron, he makes films. Michael Bay makes movies. And bad ones at that. Man, how awesome would it have been had Cameron directed Transformers? Instead, he prefers to waste his time looting the Titanic, starring as himself on Entourage and pissing off God. I digress.

But this is Transformers, people. If there’s one movie Michael Bay might actually be good at, it’s this. Robots and explosions, how hard can it be? I would gladly take two hours of a straight up robot war. Who wouldn’t? Somehow, someway, Michael Bay managed to fuck that up.

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